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Morwenna Morrison
Morwenna Morrison’s predominantly oil on canvas works draw influence from a carefully curated collage of archival images. Morrison posits her work as being ‘an analysis of today’s social, psychological and political issues, set within an historical context’.
Exploring, in particular, the notion of time itself as an ‘unseen’ but objective measure of a subjective temporality, or ‘lived time’ as she puts it, Morrison’s paintings use collage, layering and juxtaposition to reveal, exquisitely, the ways in which we, as individuals and societies, construct and deconstruct the phenomena of life cycles, the psychology of ageing, nostalgia, and even the spectre of death, in order to anchor ourselves to the world, history, and each other.
1985 – 1988 BA (Hons) Fine Art. Exeter College of Art and Design
1984 – 1985 Foundation. Falmouth Art College
SOLO SHOWS 2023 Vanitas, Arusha Gallery
2021 Fixing Eyes with the Unseen, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh
2019 Time Will Tell, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh
2018 The Eternal Return, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh
RECENT 2023 At Cross Purposes – travelling show at Aberystwyth University, Oriel Mon
EXHIBITIONS Anglesey, Queen Street Studios Gallery Belfast and Elysium Gallery
Swansea
Royal Academy Summer Show
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Salon 21
NSA Showcase Group Exhibition Tremenheere
NSA Engage Group Exhbition, Tremenheere
2021 Cruel Intentions Arusha Gallery, Londpn
2019 Ex Libris, Newlyn Society of Artists. Tremenheere
London Art Fair, James Freeman Gallery
2018 Lynn Painter Stainers competition, Mall Galleries
‘On View’ Newlyn Society of Artists, Tremenheere
‘Just Putting it Out There’, James Freeman Gallery, London
2017 ‘The Dark Tide’, Arusha Gallery
AAF Hampstead, Arusha
‘The Amorist’, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh
Newlyn Society of Artists, ‘Borders’, Tremenheere Gallery
London Art Fair, Arusha Gallery
2016 Mixed show, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh
Mixed show, Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth
